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• How to Design a Unique Visual Identity for Your iPhone App -- Vote for Your Favorite Tips

  

  By joshclark : Today, 09:24 AM

  My new O’Reilly book about iPhone user experience—Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps—hits bookshelves in the next few days (the ebook is already available). I thought it’d be fun to share ...

  Tags:

  • user experience
  • ux
  • ui
  • design
  • apple
  • ios
  • iphone
  • tapworthy

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• How to Make Menus More Responsive in Windows 7

  

  By adfm : 27 May 2010 - 10:06 AM

  The little details can make or break a user experience. Some users notice a lag, while others have a hard time with basic navigation. The default system settings are meant to be a sensible starting-...

  Tags:

  • Windows 7
  • Menu
  • UI
  • UX
  • Registry

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• Yielding with JavaScript Timers

  

  By adfm : 17 May 2010 - 09:42 AM

  If you're experiencing a little UI lag with your web app, you might consider using a Javascript timer to even things out. This excerpt from Nicholas C. Zakas' High Performance Jav ...

  Tags:

  • performance
  • UX
  • UI
  • timers
  • JavaScript

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• Tips for Conducting Effective User Interviews

  

  By adfm : 15 April 2010 - 10:27 AM

  You only think you know what a user wants. The only way you're going to know for sure is to ask the user. Seems obvious, huh? Knowing what to ask and how to ask it can be stumbling blocks to getting...

  Tags:

  • UI
  • UX
  • users
  • interface
  • interview
  • research
  • usability

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• Do you have a user experience (UX) process in your organization?

  Asked by todisht : 20 November 2009 - 07:10 AM

  

  Answered by GarthDB : Nov 20 2009 10:21 AM
  Although I work in a small team there isn't a huge emphasis from the company put on the UX process, so we usually do it individually and ask for feedback from the director periodically. I prefer ... full answer >

  Tags:

  • development
  • design
  • ux

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• Do you see Flash Catalyst becoming part of your designer/developer work flow?

  Asked by todisht : 20 November 2009 - 07:08 AM

  

  Answered by GarthDB : Nov 20 2009 10:24 AM
  Not personally. If I worked with a dedicated designer I might, but right now we have another developer who does design work or I do my own design. Until there is good round trip support for FC to FB... full answer >

  Tags:

  • flash catalyst
  • ux
  • flash platform
  • flash

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• The Benefits of Applying UX Best Practices to Data Collection

  

  By kiwitobes : 30 October 2009 - 02:54 PM

  When it comes to data collection, user experience design is more important than ever. Data—that most valuable digital resource—comes from people and their actions, so designers and develop...

  Tags:

  • data
  • UX
  • user
  • design
  • experience

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• How to effectively use Core Location in your iPhone app

  

  By TheBarbarianGroup : 30 September 2009 - 03:55 PM

  The iPhone gives developers several methods of detecting the physical location of a device. This is by far one of its most innovative features and has helped create many new business models ...

  Tags:

  • location
  • core location
  • UX
  • iphone
  • GIS
  • GPS

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• How to launch an iPhone app quickly

  

  By TheBarbarianGroup : 28 September 2009 - 12:57 PM

  Consider the most likely interaction pattern for an iPhone: the user pulls the device out of his pocket, taps a few times to accomplish a fixed task, then locks the device and puts it back i...

  Tags:

  • iPhone
  • app
  • UX
  • Apple

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• How to define light utility apps for the iPhone

  

  By TheBarbarianGroup : 22 September 2009 - 10:53 AM

  Utility applications differ from productivity applications in that the information they display tends to represent a very simple graph—often a single content object—typically in an ambient...

  Tags:

  • iphone
  • UX
  • apps
  • apple

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